remote-debugging

best technique for launching a windbg user-mode remote debugging session

What is your favorite technique for launching a windbg user-mode remote debugging session? Why is do you prefer this technique over other techniques? (pros/cons) There are at least four different ways to do user-mode remote debug using windbg, as documented in the "Remote Debugging" section of the debugging tools for windows help file. ...

x86 Remote Debugger Service on x64

Is it possible to install the x86 Remote Debugger as a Service on a 64bit machine? I need to attach a debugger to managed code in a Session 0 process. The process runs 32bit but the debugger service that gets installed is 64bit and wont attach to the 32bit process. I tried creating the Service using the SC command, and was able to g...

Remote debugging with Eclipse CDT

We're using the Eclipse CDT 5 C++ IDE on Windows to develop a C++ application on a remote AIX host. Eclipse CDT has the ability to perform remote debugging using gdbserver. Unfortunately, gdbserver is not supported on AIX. Is anyone familiar with a way to debug remotely using Eclipse CDT without gdbserver? Perhaps using an SSH shell ...

Debug XP application on Vista computer

I am building an MFC application for both XP and Vista. I have Visual Studio 2008 installed on the XP machine but I need to debug the application on Vista. How can I do that? Do I really have to install Visual Studio on a Vista machine? When using remote debugging I assume that all executable and library files must be in my Vista virtua...

How do I remotely debug a stored procedure within the same domain?

What are the steps needed to successfully be able to remotely debug a store proc (SQL Server 2005) from within VS 2005? Again both client and server machines are on the same domain. I have never done this so step by step instructions would greatly be appreciated. ...

Tools to help with editing a remote web application

I often have nothing more than an FTP access to a server on which the application is placed. What I usually use now is "Keeping remote directory up to date" feature of WinSCP. Files of the local copy (in theory at least) keep being uploaded to a remote server as soon as they get saved and then all I need is to refresh a page in a browse...

No Symbols loaded when remote debugging

Hi there, I hope someone can help me with my problem. I want to use remote debugging. The Program, that I want to debug runs on machine b. Visual Studio runs on machine a. On machine b I have a folder with the following files msvcr72.dll msvsmon.exe NatDbgDE.dll NatDbgDEUI.dll NatDbgEE.dll NatDbgEEUI.dll If you think, there are file...

Visual Studio Remote Debugging Extensibility

I'm trying to attach to a remote machine with code similar to the following: Debugger2 db (Debugger2)dte.Debugger; Transport trans = db.Transports.Item("Default"); Process2 proc2 = (Process2)db.GetProcesses(trans, "MACHINENAME").Item("SERVICENAME"); proc2.Attach2(); I've gotten it to work by logging on through remote desktop and manu...

Remote debugging of multi threaded Python Applications

How can I do remote debugging of a multi threaded Python application, running on an Embedded Linux based system, from Windows XP or Vista? So far I have only come across PyScripter based remote debugging. How does it perform? ...

How to publish Asp.Net WebService with debug information?

Starting with asp.net 2.0 the debug=true in the compilation section of the web.config file is deciding if the website/webservice will be compiled with debug information or not. But the compilation output is a lot of "gibberish" under the ASP.Net Temporary files. Only wiht publish i can get a clean output to be properly hosted under the W...

Remote Debugging for .NET WPF Application via Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugger ?

Remote Debugging for .NET WPF Application via Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugger can this be done ? I see native only in the options ? Any help please... ...

How to use eclipse debugger to debug stacktrace of JSF core libraries?

Welcome I am extending some application written with Sprint and JSF. My work is partly writing xml config files. After some changes I got reports from library generators. Can I access with Eclipse debugger attached jars and fount what method throws error (and why) ? ...

Remote debugging - Getting errors

I have an XP client that is experiencing an issue. My dev box is Vista Home 64. I start up the debugger on the client machine and when i try to run on the dev box, it says 'Unable to debug. Remote debugger doesn't support this version of windows'. Looks like I'm sol. is there another way to find out how to debug this? The application i...

Remote Debugging in Visual Studio (VS2008), Windows Forms Application

Hi I'm trying to Remote Debugging a Windows Forms Application (C#), but i'm always getting this error: Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor named 'XXX. The Visual Studio Remote Debugger on the target computer cannot connect back to this computer. Authentication failed. Please see Help f...

ASP.NET / IIS Remote Debugging - DEBUG verb

I'm looking for details on the DEBUG HTTP verb. It's clear to me that this is used for remote debugging - though I'm not even sure if it's for IIS or ASP.NET... If I want to access this interface directly - i.e. not through Visual Studio, but sending these commands manually - what do I need to know? What are the commands for it? I'm a...

Remote debugging of a Java application launched as a Windows service

My Java application is started from within a native program through java.dll. This native program is launched as a service on Windows. The following options have been added to the JVM args for remote debugging: -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n In this configuration, it is impossible to c...

Remote debug a service via VPN

Stepping into a web-service method call: first it complained that remote debugging was not set up on the server. So I went all the way to the office on a Saturday and set up remote debugging, and went home and tried again. Now it complains that the server DNS cannot resolve my client, which is connected via VPN to the office network but...

PHP debugging with remote shell access

I'm playing with a PHP weblog application using a shared hosting service, as a part of my PHP learning process. The service provider has a typical LAMP environment with remote ssh access. Vim has been my best friend in exploring the PHP code. However, I found it sometimes hard to trace stuff in the code in case of error. For example, s...

How do I attach a remote debugger to a Python process?

I'm tired of inserting import pdb; pdb.set_trace() lines into my Python programs and debugging through the console. How do I connect a remote debugger and insert breakpoints from a civilized user interface? ...

How can I output execution display to console in Eclipse for remote C++?

I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1 with Hp/UX plugin for remote debugging of C/C++. It works very fine, except for one issue: whenever I compile my projects, the output display is Eclipse's console view, but when I run or debug any projects, the output window is the old and not-so-good MS-DOS command window. I haven't find any way to change this be...